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TORONTO (AP) — Maple Leafs coach Mike Babcock expected William Nylander
TORONTO (AP) — Maple Leafs coach Mike Babcock expected William Nylander to be "the freshest guy in hockey" on Thursday night.That was probably asking too much of a player making his season debut with exactly zero practice time since ending a prolonged contract impasse with Toronto just last weekend.The rest of Babcock's team Minnesota Wild Hoodies Authentic , which eventually showed signs life after a poor opening 40 minutes, didn't really have an excuse.Dylan Larkin scored at 2:48 of overtime and the Detroit Red Wings survived a blown three-goal lead in the third period to beat the Maple Leafs 5-4 and snap Toronto's five-game winning streak."They were just better than us," Babcock said. "They played harder."Nylander agreed to a six-year, $45 million deal minutes before Saturday's deadline for the restricted free agent to be eligible to play in the NHL this season. He flew to Toronto on Sunday from Sweden, where he had been practicing with a junior team, twice went through drills with a Leafs assistant coach and took part in Thursday's brief morning skate. Coming off consecutive 61-point seasons, the 22-year-old finished with 12 minutes, 29 seconds of ice time, but didn't see any action in the final 14:35."It has nothing to do with Willy, it has to do with me and trying to win the game," Babcock said of the benching. "Any time you've missed that amount of hockey, it's going to be hard."Nylander, who got a mostly warm reception when he stepped on the ice for his first shift Minnesota Wild Hats Authentic , started on a line with Auston Matthews and Patrick Marleau before sitting."It felt OK," Nylander said. "There's a lot of differences from practicing by yourself."After the Leafs stormed back with three goals in under nine minutes in the third to tie it, Larkin moved in on a breakaway in the extra period off a pass over the top from Gustav Nyquist, and beat Garret Sparks on a deke."We were better than them for two periods," Detroit head coach Jeff Blashill said. "Our guys battled extremely hard and (I'm) proud of the way that they played."Nyquist finished a goal and two assists. Mike Green had a goal and an assist, Jonathan Ericsson and Luke Glendening also scored, Larkin had an assist and former Maple Leafs goalie Jonathan Bernier stopped 27 shots.Andreas Johnsson and Kasperi Kapanen had a goal and an assist each for Toronto. John Tavares and Zach Hyman also scored, and Sparks made 27 saves.Tavares made it 4-2 when he ripped his 18th past Bernier off the rush at 2:38 of the third. Hyman added his seventh on a rebound at 8:50, and Johnsson tied it with his sixth with 12:24 to go.NOTES: Members of the Humbolt Broncos and their families were in attendance. … Detroit defenseman Niklas Kronwall played his 900th NHL game.UP NEXTRed Wings: Host New York Islanders on Saturday night.Maple Leafs: At Boston on Saturday night. NEW YORK (AP) Jimmy Vesey's first career hat trick came at a good time for the struggling Rangers.Vesey scored three times, Mats Zuccarello had two goals and New York beat the Carolina Hurricanes 6-3 on Monday night."It's something you definitely want to accomplish," Vesey said. "I was just saying I remember it took me all four years in college to get one. It's nice to have one."Everyone dreams when they are a kid of scoring the big goal or scoring a hat trick. I think it's something I will always remember, so it's a great feeling."Vladislav Namestnikov also scored for the Rangers, who ended a three-game losing streak and earned their first home win since Feb. 9. Pavel Buchnevich and Mika Zibanejad each had three assists.Backup goalie Alexandar Georgiev made 41 saves for his second win of the season.Georgiev made a key pad save on Sebastian Aho late in the third period to preserve the lead."I knew they were coming hard Custom Minnesota Wild Jerseys ," Georgiev said. "It's just instinct how I stretched that pad."Teuvo Teravainen, Lee Stempniak and Victor Rask scored for the Hurricanes. Scott Darling, who has struggled in his first season with Carolina, made 17 stops.Tied at 3 in the third, Vesey took a loose puck at the left faceoff circle and wristed a high shot past Darling at 12:15."That's where I was going," Vesey said. "I had a shot from a similar angle in the first period and I kind of misfired and put it lower than I wanted. I was definitely trying to go high blocker and just fortunately it went in."Zuccarello added an empty-netter at 17:23 for his 14th of the season and the 100th of his career, and Vesey capped his hat trick with an empty-netter in the final minute for his 15th goal this season.The Rangers extended their home winning streak against Carolina to 15 games, dating to Jan. 5, 2011. The streak is the longest for the Rangers against one opponent in franchise history. The Rangers also have won 24 of their past 28 games overall against the Hurricanes.The Hurricanes have struggled with three wins in their past 12 games as they fade from the Eastern Conference playoff race."We are in a hole right now," Stempniak said. "We still think we are going to make the playoffs and we believe we can, but it gets harder with each loss. We have to put this one behind us, get ready tomorrow for a very good Boston team, and start getting wins and collecting points."It was Carolina's second game since Hall of Famer Ron Francis was moved from general manager to a new role as the team's president of hockey operations. New owner Tom Dundon plans to hire a new GM who will report directly to him.With the Hurricanes on the power play www.officialcanadiensprostore.com , Rask tied it for the third time when he skated to a loose puck at the top of the zone and beat Georgiev for his 13th at 8:23 of the third period.Tied at 2 in the second period, the Rangers took the lead with a quick power-play goal. Just 6 seconds after Noah Hanifin was sent off for slashing, Buchnevich had his shot from just inside the blue line deflected in by Namestnikov at 11:51.It was Namestnikov's 22nd goal of the season and his second as a Ranger since coming over in the deal that sent Ryan McDonagh and J.T. Miller to Tampa Bay at the trade deadline.Buchnevich also had a nice play earlier in the period. He won a faceoff deep in the Hurricanes' zone and drove to the net before sending a pass to Vesey, who scored on a wrist shot at 1:52."He (Buchnevich) didn't tell me anything," Vesey said. "So once I saw him go forward, their D's stick kind of stopped the puck a little bit and it was a quick 2-on-1. I just tried to get open and he made a great play."The Hurricanes rallied again. Stempniak jumped on a rebound and beat Georgiev for his second goal of the season at 7:48.The Rangers opened the scoring about halfway through the first period. Neal Pionk's shot from the right point missed the net and took a friendly bounce off the end boards to Zuccarello, who beat Darling stick-side at 9:06.Zuccarello extended his goal-scoring streak to three games.The Hurricanes answered 5 1/2 minutes later. Aho entered the Rangers zone and sent a quick pass to Teravainen, who immediately sent a return pass to Aho. Aho shot it on net and Teravainen sent the rebound past Georgiev for his 20th of the season.NOTES: The Hurricanes re-assigned F Valentin Zykov to the American Hockey League's Charlotte Checkers. The 22-year-old Zykov, who leads the AHL with 30 goals, did not appear in any games since his recall on Sunday. … Zuccarello has a point in 15 of his past 19 games against Carolina. … Rangers D Tony DeAngelo left because of an ankle injury. Coach Alain Vigneault said DeAngelo will get an MRI on Tuesday.UP NEXTHurricanes: Host Boston on Tuesday night.Rangers: Host two-time defending champion Pittsburgh on Wednesday night.—


As everything in the garden has been a tad late this year, we didn't quite manage to harvest any strawberries in time for Wimbledon, but they are ripening off thick and fast now. Reaching into the bed to pluck my third – yes,third bowl of plump, juicy berries, something whizzed past my ear at lightning speed, with nary a care in the world for anything else that might be in its air space.
Looking up just in time, I spotted a bee with an armful of greenery, making a bee-line (sorry!) for the insect hotel we put up month or so ago. After what had seemed like a slow start to the season, it appeared we had guests for the summer. Watching carefully from a distance, the whole thing was a hive of activity. Bees were flying in from all directions, packing leaves into the tubular holes of the hotel.
Last year we were lucky enough to have Tree Bees take up residence in the bird box, and I was slightly miffed that they hadn't returned. But luck appeared to be on our side: we now have another type of bee to enjoy.
A quick scootle round the internet revealed that these new guests were Leaf Cutter Bees. They collect pieces of leaves from rose bushes and the like, and stick them all together with saliva, in small tubes. This provides the perfect habitat for their larvae to hatch. Bees apparently are on the decline, and are excellent pollinators, so I am more than happy to play 'Hostess with the mostest' to them.
Elsewhere in the garden, the broad beans are coming in thick and fast – so much so that I'm podding and freezing them straight after picking. The runner beans are a good few inches long, and not long off harvesting, and the courgettes and squashes are beginning to produce small fruits. In the greenhouse we have our first green tomatoes and chillies, and I've lost count of how many baby cucumbers have started to form. Cucumbers have male and female flowers. The male is a stalk with a flower and the female has a cucumber on the end. I've been picking off the stalky ones as have heard that they can cross pollinate and produce bitter crops.
With all this growth going on, I decided to invest in a tub of granulated feed, to give everything a helping hand. Before I could apply the feed, the patch was in desperate need of a good weeding session, as the aim was to feed the plants, not the weeds: as well as the annual ones that have popped up, I have enough mare's tail to start my own pony club.
So, off I set to work, and before long had filled two plastic sacks. These went straight in the brown bin, as I don't want to encourage some of the tough, perennial weeds to seed themselves in my compost bin, only to re-appear with a vengeance next year in the garden.
A couple of weeks ago I started to prepare for next year's crop of beans. Deciding against my usual 'wigwam in a circle' arrangement, I'm going to try out growing them in rows. With that in mind, I dug a couple of trenches about 5ft long by 2ft across, to fill with kitchen waste and garden scraps. The theory is that this all rots down over winter, and feeds the beans with a load of good stuff, and they in turn grow into fine specimens, producing bumper crops.
Once the trenches were filled with waste, they didn't look quite as sinister. I first lined the bottom of each trench with a layer of newspaper and chicken coop scrapings. The girls aren't laying any eggs at the moment, but happily for me, they are still producing an extraordinary amount of poo. Over the last couple of weeks I've been merrily chucking in kitchen scraps, such as teabags and vegetable trimmings and peelings. I don't put potato peelings in – they tend to throw up rogue plants everywhere. I also avoid putting any leftover food or meat scraps in, as these are almost bound to attract rats and mice. I think you'll agree that nothing quite says "The party's here" like a free chicken in a basket. The last layer was green cuttings and grass clippings, and the whole lot was then covered with soil.
Spotting a window of fine weather at the weekend, I scootled off down the garden to plant out my broad beans. Some varieties can go in anytime from October, and if planted now, could be producing crops as early as May next year. A couple of rows of Bunyard's Exhibition were soon poked into the soil to take their chances. If they don't happen to survive the winter, there's another packet in the shed that I can whip out in early spring if needs be.
The rest of the bed will be filled up next year with runner beans, heritage broad beans, and a couple of varieties of peas.
After the nil return we had from the bean crop this year, I've a feeling I'll be planting plenty.


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Opinion/AnalysisJune 24, 2019
Opinion | Kamala Harris steps out of her comfort zone — and it works
COLUMBIA, S.C.
When Kamala D. Harris launched her campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination in January, it seemed that the senator from California might be the one in this crowded field who had it all: experience, charisma and the exciting potential to make history as the first African American and Asian woman to sit in the Oval Office.
She has done a lot of things right since then. Harris has methodically laid out proposals, many of them bold, on teacher salaries, equal pay for men and women, stricter gun control, immigration and taxes. Harris has also assembled a top-notch campaign team and racked up important endorsements in the early primary states.
But as her leading rivals have come more sharply into focus in the early months of this presidential preseason, Harris has failed to make all of this add up to a clear definition of why she is running or what kind of president she would be.
In Senate hearing rooms, Harris's prosecutorial directness makes her a standout, notably in her recent cross-examination of Attorney General William P. Barr when he appeared before the Judiciary Committee. But as a campaigner, she comes off as cautious and diffident, a criticism that has followed her throughout her political career.
Harris consistently ranks among the top handful of contenders in the polls, but her numbers have not moved upward. When her own home state held its Democratic convention earlier this month in San Francisco, Harris seemed to almost disappear under a wave of enthusiasm for the buoyant candidacy of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).
Democratic voters often say they want to like her but they haven't been able to figure her out.
Tiffany Gamble, a 30-year-old stay-at-home mom, was a first-time delegate to the South Carolina Democratic convention on Saturday, where 22 Democratic candidates spoke. It was a warm-up to this week's first debates in Miami, where Harris will share the stage with candidates including former vice president Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who currently lead the polls.
Gamble said she is intrigued by Harris and excited by the possibility of a female president. But she also thinks Harris needs to "soften up a little bit and let people in a little bit — she's [all] business. And if she could just show her personal side, I think she'd be amazing."
In other words, what has been missing from Harris's campaign is more of Harris herself.
The California senator has also been hearing that message privately from some of her key supporters, and it seems to be getting through. In back-to-back events over the weekend here, Harris spent less of her time talking about her plans and more of it explaining why she is the right person to turn them into reality.
At Saturday's convention, Harris caused a sensation, and not just because a local high school's drum line heralded her arrival down an escalator.
Where she has sometimes been on the defensive about her record as a former district attorney and state attorney general, it was the bona fide she touted as she laid out a fiery bill of particulars against President Trump.
"I know how to take on predators," she said, to ecstatic cheers from the delegates. "So let me tell you, we need somebody on our stage when it comes time for that general election who knows how to recognize a rap sheet when they see it and prosecute the case."
About an hour later, at a forum put on by the political arm of Planned Parenthood, Harris brought the audience to silence as she shared raw childhood memories of racial discrimination. She recalled how it hurt to see people "looking down on" her mother, a medical researcher, "assuming that she was somebody's housekeeper and treating her like she was a substandard person because of assumptions of who she is based on how she looks."
Harris does not deny that all of this marks a new, a necessary — and, yes, an uncomfortable — turn for her.
"It's in me. Everything you heard today is in me," Harris told me Saturday. But she acknowledged: "It doesn't come naturally to me to wax on about who I am."
"Part of it is I'm learning I should not assume that people know the relevance of the experience I've had," she added. "I'm realizing more that maybe I need to show the math."
Harris says that campaigning for president is "not a static process," and she is right. One of the qualities that distinguish successful candidates from those who are not is an ability to recognize their own vulnerabilities and weaknesses and to improve their ability to connect with voters.
For Harris, that means stepping out of her comfort zone. She has shown she can do it, and she will have to stay there, if the early promise of her candidacy is to become a reality.
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Home/United States/Pennsylvania judge ends electoral certification amid postal vote fight
Pennsylvania judge ends electoral certification amid postal vote fight
A Pennsylvania state court issued an injunction on Wednesday blocking any potential new certification of election results in the state, pending a hearing to be held Friday.
Judge Patricia McCullough's order comes in the case brought by voters in Pennsylvania, including Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., In which they allege that state law allows absentee voting without excuse violated Pennsylvania's constitution, which describes specific instances where absentee voting is permitted.
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"[T]o to the extent that additional measures remain to complete the certification of the results of the 2020 general election … for the post of President and Vice President of the United States of America, defendants are first barred from do so, while awaiting a hearing of evidence[,]"" McCullough wrote.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro quickly responded on Twitter, pointing out that it didn't have much of an impact since the presidential election results had already been certified and voters selected.
Still, Pennsylvania officials quickly filed a notice of appeal with the state Supreme Court, requesting a review of whether McCullough erred in granting an injunction while Kelly and other voters had shown a "failure to meet one of the preconditions" which justified an injunction.
PENNSYLVANIA AND NEVADA CERTIFY ELECTION RESULTS FOR SUBMISSIONS DESPITE TRUMP'S LEGAL CHALLENGES
As with all other November election races that may not have been certified, state officials are temporarily prohibited from certifying the results of any election that has not already been certified.
An evidence hearing will take place on Friday.
The complaint in the case centers on Bill 77, which complainants have called "the most expansive and fundamental change to Pennsylvania's electoral code to date." This law extended postal voting, although Article VII, Section 14 of the Pennsylvania Constitution, which covers absentee voting, is very narrow in its scope.
This law states that the state legislature must provide a manner of voting for persons who will be outside their municipality "because their duties, profession or business require them to be elsewhere or who, upon the occurrence of election, cannot attend their appropriate polling place due to illness or physical disability or who will not attend a polling station due to the observance of a religious holiday or who will not may not vote because of his office on polling day, in the case of a county employee, may vote, and for the return and prospecting of their votes in the constituency in which they respectively reside. "
The lawsuit claims that postal votes in Pennsylvania are invalid because to expand absentee voting requires a constitutional amendment, not simply passing a bill.
While the results of the Pennsylvania presidential election have already been certified, the Trump campaign is still actively fighting them, hoping for certification revocation as they appeal the dismissal of a case they have. brought, alleging that voters were improperly allowed to cure invalid absent votes, and in according to them, more than 680,000 ballots were counted without proper observation.
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We just got in this wonderful old (1950s/early 60s era) student desk from a gentleman who had it throughout his childhood until about an hour ago when I took it away.
It's clearly been well-loved – despite the attempt to spiff it up with some additional paint – but is in excellent structural shape. It's pretty lightweight; I'm not very tall or particularly strong (since age & arthritis are doing a number on me) but I can easily carry it.
The desk has two small cubbies on top (the little boxes in each corner) and a single long drawer, as well as space below for books or other storage.
Condition: Structurally, it's in very good shape. It does need to be refinished, as you can see. Or you can just love it the way it is.
Dimensions: 30″H x 33″W x 18″D.
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In this episode of the podcast Sub Rosa, Andrew talks with Levi West about terrorism in Australia.
This is the first episode for 2017, and is part of a two-episode series. This episode presents the first half of the conversation, discussing terrorism in Australia from the 1960s up until 2013.
It first discusses the international development of terrorism and its Australian manifestations, demonstrated by some Yugoslav, Ananada Marga, Palestinian, Armenian, far-left and far-right groups that sometimes engaged in small-scale political violence in Australia.
It then discusses transitions that occurred in the 1990s, with high-profile terror attacks such as the 1993 World Trade Center bombing (by jihadists), the 1995 Tokya subway sarin gas attack (by the Aum Shinrikyo sect), the 1995 Oklahoma bombing (by far-right extremists), and the 1998 US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzani (by jihadists). These attacks had implications for Australia, particularly with a local jihadist scene emerging, though terrorism rarely featured in political discussion at the time.
It then turns to the post-9/11 environment, as global jihadism became the predominant terrorist threat to Australia, posing a more serious prospect of mass casualty attacks than earlier threats had.
It discusses how jihadism within Australia evolved up until 2013, and how various political developments (such as the seizure or loss of territory), strategic shifts (through the writings of jihadist theoreticians), and counter-terrorism responses (including increased resources and powers for security agencies) shaped the threat.
The impact of the Syrian civil war, the rise of "Islamic State", and controversies over counter-terrorism powers, are covered in the next episode.


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Tag / Spanish Cinema
August 8, 2011 October 20, 2013 by Jonathan M
Some Thoughts On… Cell 211 (2009)
Crime, Film, Spanish Film
Cell 211, Daniel Monzon, film criticism, Some Thoughts On, Spanish Cinema
Based on a novel by Francisco Pérez Gandul, Daniel Monzon's prison drama Celda 211 hits the ground running. Without wasting a single shot or line of dialogue, Monzon introduces us to the film's setting and many of its principle characters: Juan (Alberto Ammann) is the new guard at a prison where violent offenders are kept separated from the general population. Malamadre (Luis Tosar) is one of these violent offenders, a violent offender who orchestrates a riot in order to bring attention to the failures of the current prison regime. As alarms sound and roofs collapse, Juan finds himself abandoned in an empty cell by his new colleagues. Aware that the rioting inmates will kill him if they find out that he is a guard, Juan decides to pass himself off as a newly arrived prisoner.
Boasting some of the most elegantly simple and unadorned storytelling I have ever seen, Cell 211 starts by building up an incredible amount of tension in very little time. Not only does Juan have to convince Malamadre's gang that he is a prisoner, he also has to guide Malamadre's actions so as to both minimise bloodshed and maximise his own chances of getting out alive. While tensions build inside the prison, they also begin to build outside as prison administrators find themselves trapped between the desire to cover up Juan's capture and the desire to get him out safely. In what slowly emerges as one of the film's recurring visual motifs, black-clad SWAT teams swarm over roof-tops and stand poised to storm the building before a compromise is reached and mass slaughter is averted.
Half an hour into this film, I was convinced that I was seeing a work of real vision. Aside from building tension like a master, Monzon also reveals himself to be a dab hand at actor wrangling as Juan emerges as an intriguing character with an intense relationship with both his wife and the charismatic sociopath Malamadre. However, having introduced us to all of these fascinating balls and thrown them gracefully up into the air, Monzon promptly forgets how to juggle and they all come crashing down on the ground. Indeed, the first act complete, Cell 211 loses focus horribly as plot lines unravel in all directions, spilling tension as they go. Needless to say, my heart sank.
Then Monzon begins the process all over again as something dreadful happens on the outside and Juan decides to throw his lot in with the prisoners. Suddenly aware both that Juan may not be in his right mind and that he might be a guard, Malamadre finds himself trapped between his loyalty to Juan, his convict's hatred of guards and his suspicion that Juan is right when he says that all this is going to end badly. Again, Monzon does a brilliant job of stoking up the tension and again, he allows it all to slip away as the film resolves in an ugly and unsatisfying mess.
The problem is that, while Monzon knows how to build tension, his commitment to the film's characters is such that he is unwilling to simplify their arcs for the sake of the over-arching narrative. As a result, tension builds and builds until denouement at which point the film switches to a melodramatic register in which characters respond in great depth to everything that has just happened and, like a river flowing into a vast set of swamps, all urgency is lost forever in the murky heat of soap-operatic swampland. Of course, this is not to say that the melodrama is boring to watch… far from it. Luis Tosar's Malamadre is a wonderful combination of outer toughness and inner softness mediated by a keen mind. Similarly, Alberto Ammann does a great job of presenting a character so skilled at thinking on his feet that he cannot stop plotting even when his world starts to come apart. With so many conflicting agendas and competing factions at work, Cell 211 also works as a commentary upon the Spanish prison system and public attitudes to prisoners. However, while there is no denying that this film is smart and possesses some brilliant moments of tension and character-based drama, I cannot help but feel that co-writers Daniel Monzon and Jorge Guerricaechevarria failed to make the sorts of tough decisions you need to make in order to adapt a novel for the screen. I suspect that Cell 211's changes of pace and register work quite nicely in a novelistic context as the increased time of consumption means that characters have more space to bloom and changes in register are less sudden and jarring. However, reduced to a 113 minute running time, Cell 211 needed to be either a character-based melodrama or a thriller set in a prison as, while Monzon handles both elements with equal panache, his attempts to force the two together are distracting to say the least.


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The Scourge of Tribalism
Issue 96 September
"We have to be the people, ennobled by faith, who are the voice of conscience for the world."
"We are being slaughtered", "Wake up!", "Muslims are being persecuted again!" Facebook and Twitter are buzzing with calls for action in Burma about the Rohingya and Muslim Rakhine. Burma has fast been added to the list of "Muslim causes", but who exactly is this "we"? And what is it we have to wake up to?
The social media momentum was based on real reports, but fuelled with some false images, one of which purported to show Buddhist monks standing over the bodies of massacred Muslim Rohingya, but was actually an image from the 2010 China earthquake; another image was declared to be of a Muslim being set on fire in Burma, whereas it was an image of a Tibetan activist who set himself on fire. However, there is real suffering of Muslims in Burma. Amnesty International has detailed physical abuse, rape, destruction of property, and unlawful killings by Rakhine Buddhists and security forces. Our heartfelt concern is necessary, as the Prophet reminded us, "The Believers, in their mutual love, mercy and compassion, are like one body: if one organ complains, the rest of the body develops a fever."
Burma has been an issue that has concerned me for a long time, despite criticism by some individuals who thought I should be focussing only on "Muslim issues", such as Kashmir and Palestine. Five years ago, there was a ten-page feature in emel on the oppression in Burma. We wrote that the Rohingya are "amongst the most persecuted people on the planet", but it did not generate much outrage. After all, Burma was not "our" problem.
Burma is "our" problem not just because the Rohingya are Muslim, but because human beings—regardless of faith—have been persecuted for decades. The Qur'an reminds, "Whosoever saves the life of one person, it shall be as if he had saved the life of all mankind". (5:32) In this respect, the Qur'an does not make any distinction between people's faith. If we are not concerned with all of human life, then that is clearly contrary to the Qur'anic message.
God emphatically describes the mission of the Prophet, "We have not sent you except as a mercy to all the worlds". (21:107) The Prophet was not sent as a terror, as a scourge, as a slayer—but as a mercy. And a mercy to whom? To his tribe, the Quraysh? To the Arabs? To the Muslims? No, to everyone. Tribalism is firmly rejected, yet we revived the "Muslim tribe". And we indulge in an orgy of victimhood, wallowing in the narrative of our persecution.
Yes, we need to wake up, but we need to wake up to a world of suffering. We need to proclaim loudly our shared humanity. True dedication to the message of the Prophet requires genuine concern for all people. We should rush to prevent suffering and persecution anywhere in the world and not confine ourselves to narrow-minded parochialism, and only jump to action when "one of ours" is in trouble. The poor, the weak, the dispossessed are all victims of indifference, global power play, inequity, and corporate greed—but they are victims regardless of their faith or colour or nationality.
This victim mentality is threatening the Muslim ummah right now. It is actually disempowering; it is paralysing. It turns a proud, dynamic and global message of justice and engagement into one of self-pity and self-interest. It has imprisoned us in helplessness.Whereas the message of Islam—which was initially accepted by the persecuted people of Arabia—the women, slaves, and the poor—ennobled them, and made otherwise ordinary individuals make extraordinary choices. It turned ordinary people into heroes, whose names we mention in awe to this day.
But we seem unable to transcend the self-imposed tribalism of our faith. We do not have the confidence to stand as global citizens and speak as global leaders. We do not have the passion in our bellies for anything other than a defeatist, "We are being humiliated".The situation in Burma needs our support and action; it has needed it for a long time. The situation in Tibet needs our attention. In the Democratic Republic of Congo the war over 'blood minerals' has killed 5.4million people since 1998, and 45,000 people continue to die every month. But it is too inconvenient for us to question the source of the minerals in our mobile phones, laptops and digital cameras, especially since the victims are not from "our" tribe. The Prophet was clear however, "He is not one of us who calls to tribalism. He is not one of us who fights for the sake of tribalism. He is not one of us who dies following the way of tribalism."
If we want to walk in the footsteps of the Prophet, if we want to live out the message of the Qur'an, then we have to realise that we have to be more than just Muslims concerned about "Muslim issues". We have to be the people, ennobled by faith, who are the voice of conscience for the world.
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Talk about an explosive meal. The Merc with the Mouth might get a little more spice than he can handle on the Deadpool Chimichangerous Tie-Dye T-Shirt.
Deadpool serving a chimichanga to Deadpool. It's one of those things that could only happen to Deadpool, especially with the added twist of one of him trying to blow the other him up. This meal has blown right past spicy and entered the land of Chimichangerous.
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Regular, scheduled maintenance of Fire Detection systems is highly recommended.
Holt Alarms will undertake scheduled or one-off maintenance of most detection systems, including those installed by other companies.
During Fire Alarm System maintenance all components are checked for satisfactory operation. All detector heads are cleaned and tested for sensitivity. Bell boxes are tested to ensure decibel levels are in accordance with current European standards.


On September 24, 2017, the President issued a proclamation titled Enhancing Vetting Capabilities and Processes for Detecting Attempted Entry into the United States by Terrorists or Other Public-Safety Threats, building on a previous travel ban, protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States. Section 2 of the Proclamation suspends the entry of certain nationals from Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen, and Somalia based on the perceived threat posed by each country and the measures used to prevent the spread of terrorism from these countries. For nationals of the eight countries named in the Proclamation the effective date is October 18, 2017 and the duration is indefinite. Following its release, the Proclamation was challenged in federal courts. To date, two district courts and two circuit courts have issued preliminary injunctions enjoining executive agencies from implementing the Proclamation. However, both Circuits stayed their injunctions pending a decision from the Supreme Court.
On October 17, 2017, the federal district court in State of Hawaii, Ismail Elshikh, John Doe 1 & 2, and Muslim Association of Hawaii, Inc. v. Donald J. Trump, issued a Temporary Restraining Order blocking Elaine Duke, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State, and their respective employees from enforcing all travel suspensions under Section 2, except those pertaining to North Korea and Venezuela.
On December 22, 2017, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the district court's preliminary injunction. The court agreed that the Proclamation circumvented the express will of Congress, and invalidated whole sections of statutory immigration law.
For these reasons, the court upheld the injunction, though limited it to those foreign nationals "with a credible bona fide relationship with the United States," and then stayed its own decision pending a decision by the Supreme Court.
On February 15, 2018, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the district court that the ban likely violates the Establishment Clause of the Constitution.
On December 4, 2017, the Supreme Court stayed the preliminary injunction from the district court in the Ninth Circuit pending the decision in the Fourth Circuit, as well as its own decision to grant a writ of certiorari.
On January 19, 2018, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case. Since both circuit courts of appeal have stayed their preliminary injunctions pending a Supreme Court decision, the Proclamation is still fully in effect, and will remain so until the final decision of the Supreme Court.
A decision is likely to be rendered in June 2018.


I've owned a 2000 CA -68 since the mid 80's. Used to drive it but put it away for restoration many years ago. The opportunity to restore it never came and now I plan to sell it, together with a spare part car of the same model + some lose spare parts. The car has some rust but is essentially complete and in a very restorable condition.
Is there anyone here interested in buying the car or know anyone who is? This is the first place I ask, since I feel that the coupe should be sold to a true enthusiast. The price is negotiable, and I'd rather have further talk with any presumptive buyer in private. If you're interested mail me at "kjell.frick(at)mac.com".


Last Saturday night was a cool, cloudless Southern California winter evening. And, throughout the corridors of Culver City's acoustically-challenged art spaces, the rattle and squeak of shoes on cement competed unsuccessfully with the even more overwhelming din of alcoholically amplified voices. Casual chat lent a warmth that contrasted pleasantly with the night's dusky chill, but the walls had plenty of tales to tell because much of this month's Culver City art offerings are all about story.
At Roberts & Tilton, a group show entitled, In the Making, focuses on the narrative formed by the meandering , idiosyncratic paths artists take to derive their end-product. The show is not so much about physical process, but rather the interplay between concept and craft, planning and execution.
Highlights of the entertaining show were rug paintings by British born, Los Angeles resident Kour Pour and a curious wall-hanging by Los Angeles artist Kori Newkirk.
Kori Newkirk's wall hanging is a sturdy but delicate, inverted urban totem pole. Suspended from a basketball hoop, its 'basket' is woven from shoe laces which dangle tin cans of the type that might be used as part of a child's makeshift telephone system. The bottom is a pair of red click-clack balls. By adopting and inventively employing the simple accoutrements of an urban childhood, the piece seems an elegant and playfully expressive rumination on adolescence and emergent masculinity – complete with an imaginary soundtrack of swooshes, children's voices and percussive clicks.
Angles Gallery mounted an exhibition of explicitly narrative paintings by UCLA MFA grad Delia Brown entitled Felicity & Caprice (click though the images on the linked page to "read" the story in a manner similar to Good Dog Carl.) Representing scenes that she and her friends/collaborators reenacted from the campy 1968 Claude Chabrol film, Les Biches, Brown skillfully concocted a lovely and humorous suite of paintings that satirize both the lives of wealthy art collectors and the bohemian life-style – all painted with a decidedly 19th century sensibility (think John Singer Sargent and Marie Cassatt.) The most entertaining sequence of the engaging narrative is when Felicity poisons Caprice's coffee and feigns sympathy for her ill friend's death throes until she eventually drowns her.
Well worn rugs, a coming of age tale, a murder plot and shadowy intrigue make for a Culver City winters' tale.


There are 22 Pacific Island countries, hundreds of islands, thousands of anchorages you can visit on your vacation in the South Pacific. All the Islands in the South Pacific have their own character, their own lifestyle, their special culture. You could visit the Melanesian islands, and Cruise the Solomon Islands, go cruising in Papua New Guinea, cruising Fiji, cruising New Caledonia, cruising Vanuatu or head for the Polynesian islands and go cruising Samoa or go for the Micronesian islands cruising Palau, or, easiest off go cruising Australia, or any other of the 22 South Pacific island nations.
If you go cruising as a professional, on your own yacht, or if you charter in vanuatu, or bareboat charter anywhere in the world, you'll need information about the places you go. You would get cruising guides like the cruising Broken Bay nautical guide so you would know all about the Pittwater and Broken Bay sailing grounds. There is a terrific cruising guide to vanuatu, with satellite and vanuatu aerial images of 140 anchorages covering every Vanuatu island. The cruising guide for New Caledonia has even more information and covers all the islands of New Caledonia.
You'll also need to know what the cruising weather is going to be like whenever you go sailing. If you sail when the weather is nice you'll always have a good trip. The secret is picking the best time to go and going when the time is right. This is called finding the right weather window for sailing. However, if you go with a captained yacht charter, the captain takes care of all the details leaving you and your family free to enjoy the adventure.
Don't forget that cruising requires a certain mind set and awareness, you need something to do, like the sailers of old.


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New Delhi [India], April 1 (ANI/NewsVoir): Zee Media Corporation Ltd. (ZMCL) appointed Arun Kapoor as the Additional Director in the category of Non-Executive Non-Independent Director. He is known for handling start-ups and turning around sick companies, as well as growing companies aggressively in his extensive experience of over 3 decades in leading positions across multiple industries.
Kapoor, a commerce graduate from Delhi University, MBA from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management-Mumbai and PhD from Chitkara University-Punjab is an eminent personality in the professional sphere. He brings to the table a comprehensive experience of over three decades in general management, sales and marketing including as CEO/Business head across multiple industries like liquor, packaged foods, consumer products, BPO, telecom and media distribution.
He has also been associated with business houses like United Breweries, Gillette, Bharti Cellular, Pepsi, Hutchinson Essar and Reliance ADAG during his past business endeavours. Kapoor was also associated with Essel Group for over a decade till May 2017 including positioned as the CEO of Dish TV and heading Media Distribution business of the group housed under Zee Turner, MediaPro, Taj Television and Siti Cable.


Often, when we read the Bible, we make it our aim to read as much of it as possible in one sitting. But I want to suggest you do something very different. The next time you read your Bible, instead of reading as much as you can as fast as you can, read very slowly. Determine in advance that it doesn't matter how much you read but how deeply you read. Set your heart not on gaining information but on getting revelation.
The Word of God is not simply scribbles on a page or ideas in a book. The Word of God is full of life and supplies the "nutrients" you need to make it through each day. Think about it for a moment: When you eat a bowl of spinach, you cannot see how the nutrients in that spinach actually affect your body. You can't see the process of nutritious food getting into your organs and joints and making those things strong. You can't visualize it—but it still happens.


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University of Washington Huskies Football
Sports > UW football
Jake Browning rebounds from benching for No. 20 Washington
UPDATED: Mon., Nov. 5, 2018
Washington quarterback Jake Browning bounced back from being benched in a loss to Cal to lead the Huskies past Stanford last Saturday. (Elaine Thompson / AP)
By Tim Booth Associated Press
SEATTLE – Jake Browning was angry and probably had every right to be.
After four seasons as Washington's starting quarterback, the last thing Browning expected was to be benched because of the Huskies' offensive woes.
Instead of letting the benching a week ago against California fester, Browning responded as Washington hoped, throwing one touchdown and running for another in the Huskies' 27-23 victory over Stanford on Saturday.
The win returned the Huskies (7-3, 5-2 Pac-12) to the AP Top 25 at No. 20 and kept alive their Rose Bowl chances heading into a weekend off. If the Huskies beat Oregon State on Nov. 17 and knock off rival Washington State in the Apple Cup, they will play in the Pac-12 Championship game with a chance at a reasonable consolation prize for a season that began with College Football Playoff aspirations.
"I've gone through a lot of things in my career and I feel like I've responded to all of them," Browning said after the victory over Stanford. "You can question a lot of things about me, but I'm pretty mentally tough and I'm not going to let something shake me."
Browning wasn't great against Stanford, throwing for only 194 yards, and Washington's offense stagnated after a dynamic first half in which the Huskies scored on their first three drives. But he avoided any major mistakes and finished off one of the more trying weeks in his Washington career with a victory.
Browning was benched late in the third quarter of the Huskies' 12-10 loss at California on Oct. 27. It was a questionable decision considering the Huskies were leading when the benching occurred and backup Jake Haener almost immediately threw an interception that was returned for a touchdown.
Browning didn't mince words in expressing his displeasure, but he tried to keep it out of the eye of his teammates and the public so as not to be a distraction heading into the Stanford game. That included a conversation with coach Chris Petersen.
"I was pretty frustrated … but had to move on," Browning said. "Didn't let that affect our season. Sat down, hashed it out. It's a little bump in the road, but coach (Petersen) is my guy, and I've been through a lot with him, and like I said, I tried to handle it as maturely as possible, so it didn't become this huge drama or whatever. Tried to move on to this game, and if we won this game everyone would feel better, and luckily we did that."
Petersen agreed that Browning should have been upset and if he wasn't, there might have been a bigger problem.
"I know that kid inside and out and if he wasn't upset … that he got pulled out I probably wouldn't have put him back in," Petersen said. "That's Jake. He's a fighter. He's a competitor. I would have expected nothing different."
Browning said dealing with the benching was nothing compared with his sophomore season, when he played about half the year with a shoulder injury that required surgery after the season ended and not once giving a full indication of how hurt he was along the way. That was the best season of Browning's career; he was named the Pac-12 offensive player of the year and led Washington to a spot in the national semifinals. The Huskies won't get back there this year, but still having a chance at a conference title to close out his career is plenty of motivation.
"That was something I was thinking about when I got benched for those two drives was crazy stuff happens in this league and if I mentally fold, which I'll never do, then that really could have an effect on this team," Browning said, "which is why I tried to handle it really maturely and continue to just keep pushing the issue in practice and continue to get better."
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Hello friends! I hope you all had a merry Christmas!! I hope you all have a Wonderful 2016! I'm hoping for so much this year for myself, friends and family! I am loving my mini vacation with my family, but at the same time, I'm missing my students! I can't wait to see them and get back into routines and see progress happen at the same time!
Here is one of the activities that I will be doing with my students next week! We will be creating a SNOWMAN either by cutting out our own circles or using the circle punch!
Create a Snowman by using a "Tool" to create circles.
Learn the word OVERLAPPING and demonstrate it's meaning through art!
Create additional clothing for the snowman using a variety of materials provided: glitter, colored construction paper, google eyes, etc.
Click the picture below for your freebie! Have a great 2016!
What a great way to start the year! Thank you for the freebie!


Benna Warner has been involved in psychotherapy since 2003 and currently operates from within the Lindsay Centre.
In keeping with the ethos of the centre Benna provides a space for one-on-one counselling delivered in a respectful and confidential manner and predominately practices within the psychoanalytic model of treatment.
From her extensive experience working within many fields of mental health Benna believes the analytic model is best placed to help patients achieve lasting change. Analytic psychotherapy helps people to engage with the unconscious forces of the mind that to some degree affect everyone's life and relationships. This has the potential to enable each individual to find both peace in themselves and their most highly charged interactions.
As an effective and competent practitioner, Benna has successfully completed extensive academic study holding a bachelor degree in nursing and post graduate qualifications in analytic psychotherapy. Having also undertaken hundreds of hours of her own therapeutic process, Benna is able to assist people through the complexities of their individual journey toward achieving personal growth.
She regularly attends ongoing professional development and is a member of several professional bodies.


V12 - V16 Looking for Help?
Using TFP ver 16 is it possible to export / convert a project to DWG format? The 'export' selection offers DXF but not DWG.
I want to use this in the trial version of TFP v 17 before I commit to buying v 17 and I am told by v 17 support that a bld file can only be imported after exporting to DWG format.
Sorry but V16 will not export to DWG. The original V16 program continues to exist under the name Personal Architect (www.personalarch.com ) and has been considerably developed of course. It has a bigger brother ProArchitect and also further up the scale again Envisioneer, both of which will open your existing V16 files and will export as DWG but these two versions are more into the professional construction drawing area and carry a much higher price tag.
Personal Architect however is still under $100 and is fully compatible with V16, so you could open and edit all your existing files and apply the many new features, such as VR walkarounds and 360 degree views.
If you still need DWG you could export as 2D DXF and use another program to convert it to DWG. I think TurboCad will do it but there are probably many others that will, some probably free.
My thanks for your readiness to share your knowledge and experience to help us 'questors'. It really is great to have your help in this way.
Your opening sentence is no surprise to me. I had feared it was so. It seems that TFP v 17 is not for me so I was so glad to read of the Personal Architect software which I had not heard about but I shall certainly give it a look in view of your mention. I would only have needed to convert to DWG in order to import to TPF v 17 but I shall rule that out now.
How flexible is Personal Architect on the landscaping side? I am looking at a long narrow plot with a 10 degree slope. My building plan is on two levels; storey 1 for the entrance, garage, workshop and store with storey 2 being all the living accommodation, really a bungalow perched on top of, partly set back from and overlapping the garage etc.
I need to excavate to create two level areas into the slope and then mould the land around them giving both access to all levels and creating a pleasant and enjoyable environment. Does Personal Architect readily give that facility?
The first version of Personal Architect was in effect TFP V16 , (both were made by Cadsoft) so its landscaping tools were the same. I am using Envisioneer, the older brother of V16 and PA so I am not sure personally what improvements have been made to the landscaping tools part of the program. However, what you are describing can be done in V16, so certainly can in be done in PA.
Applying the Slope across the whole site is dead easy and cutouts for the two levels are easy with the Pads tool but they will create vertical sides. To get graduated sides use the Plateau tool to build up the contours in small stages. This is the tool to get the effect you want. Imagine the contour lines at say 150mm in depth drawing them around the site in decreasing "circles" as the height increases to the high end of the site (and completely off the Terrain at the high end) and lines coming very close together on the steeply sloping areas. Play with it on a new project so you can see how it works. Envisioneer has the addition of a mesh grid where you can lower or raise each individual point on the grid but I don't think PA has inherited that yet.
If you use the Search for "Plateau" on the V16 forum, you should find some earlier 'tutorials' I did on using the Plateau tool.


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Citium & InfoSec
A recent decision by the US District Court for the Northern District of California notes the importance of using ephemeral communication tools as early as possible to avoid being accused of spoliation of evidence:
WeRide Corp. v. Huang, 2020 WL 1967209, 9, 11 (N.D. Cal., Apr. 24, 2020), presents what the court described as a "staggering" amount of spoliation, "so sweeping that [the] case [could not] be resolved on its merits." One of the spoliation factors the court considered was senior management's specific direction to use ephemeral messaging months after the litigation was filled – apparently in an attempt to evade discovery. Ultimately, the court ordered terminating sanctions under Fed. R. Civ. P. 37(b) and (e).
Citium is an SPICED instant messaging platform, where SPICED is a mnemonic that stands for Secure, Piggybacking, Impervious, Circumventive, Ephemeral, and Deniable:
Secure. Messages are encrypted on your own device with ECDSA, BLOWFISH, and XXTEA, which are time-tested and provably secure algorithms in the open source community.
Piggybacking. A unique feature that enables inconspicuous transmission of data through BitTorrent and Bitcoin networks, which are the world's most popular P2P protocols with millions of active nodes.
Impervious. You can send and receive messages even if all Citium nodes are removed. Service availability of Citium is impervious to takedown.
Circumventive. No one can stop you and your contacts from communicating even if you are situated in the most pervasive level of Internet censorship.
Ephemeral. Cleartext messages self-destruct, which preempts spoliation of evidence and data breach due to devices fallen into the wrong hands.
Deniable. The last line of defense is its technically feasible/plausible deniability, which preempts coercion, eavesdropping, such as man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack, and post-quantum computing cryptanalysis of archived surveillance data by government mass surveillance projects.
System Design Premises
Don't let its blandly designed client app interface mislead you into thinking that Citium is an underdeveloped software. In fact, it is so powerful that it guarantees the communications with your intended contacts are quantum-resistant and plausibly deniable. It is well-known that innovative system design often introduces new forms of failure. And yet, despite that, most system designers embrace innovation because it is human nature to resolve recurring annoyances. Sadly, more often than not, the well-meaning changes in secure communication systems create unexpected failures, such as security vulnerabilities. The higher the complexity, the more error-prone they are. Therefore, the design philosophy of Citium is, foremost, to reduce system complexity. When the use of some complex encryption algorithms is irreducible, we compartmentalize them into modular components. Given that modular designs become susceptible to failure when issues arise that bridge the divisions, Citium makes sure those failures are nothing but acceptable cost at the expense of speed. It might all sound too abstract so let us put these in more concrete terms and examples.
Citium in Layman's Terms
Encryptions and transmission mechanisms of BitTorrent and Bitcoin protocols are time-tested decentralized P2P technology. The BitTorrent protocol has been around for two decades with billions of users worldwide. The Bitcoin protocol has demonstrated its reliability in the high-stakes financial environment. Citium rides on the back of them to realize quantum-resistant confidentiality, user anonymity and deniability. Imagine "messages in bottles" senario. Instead of putting pieces of papers into bottles, we put individual jigsaw puzzles in them. The message that you want to send to your intended recipient is analogous to the custom photo of a jigsaw puzzle. First, the message is encrypted by your own device and is cryptographically split into small slices. It is like die-cutting the photo into jigsaw puzzles then bottling them individually. Then, they are randomly casted to the nodes in the Citium network, the BitTorrent network and the Bitcoin network. They are located all over the world in different countries. It is like casting the bottles into the seven seas.
Dynamic Data
Note that the dynamic transmission of data to the Citium network along with those that piggyback on BitTorrent and Bitcoin networks resembles the tens of millions of fake seeding and dusting attacks that happen every moment on the Internet. In other words, the data transmission is harmless and is hiding perfectly in the plainsight of mundane Internet traffic. Most of the BitTorrent and Bitcoin nodes neither examine nor block data casting from individual Citium nodes because they are too small in size and low in frequency to be obtrusive. Usually, they just stack the newly arrived data into their own buffers and/or pass them onto someone else. That's why Citium can circumvent all kinds of Internet censorship and users can communicate freely on Citium.
Static Data
Moreover, the static data–all the ciphertext slices–that are sitting on the decentralized network of Citium, BitTorrent client and Bitcoin network nodes look similar, just like you can hardly tell apart one floating bottle from another in the seas. Everyone can bottle a jigsaw puzzle and cast it into the seas and everyone is allowed to pick it up. Yours, too, can be picked up by anyone! However, no one, except your intended recipient, has any clue of which bottles contain the essential puzzles, not to mention how to piece them back to the original message even if they somehow manage to recover every essential slice. Yet all the while, you and the intended recipient can communicate smoothly in Citium because only your intended recipient knows which are the essential slices (bottles) to retain, has the required keys to decrypt (unlock) them and to piece the ciphertexts (jigsaw puzzles) back together into the original message (photo). In addition, you ripe the full benefit of plausible deniability no matter how things turn out, even your intended recipient decides to turn on you. Thanks to the inherent design of Citium, your intended recipients cannot hold you accountable to whatever you have said to him/her because it is technically impossible to prove irrefutably that the messages were ever casted by you.
InfoSec Design Premises
All popular and even seemingly innovative encryption algorithms and features (e.g. AES, forward secrecy) in the hope of preventing man-in-the-middle (MITM) and cryptanalysis is elusive if not futile because any belief in anti-MITM technology is unfalsifiable, not to mention that none of them can withstand attacks by quantum computers and/or coercions. We can only wish those who have faith in anti-MITM technologies good luck while we take the design premises of Citium to extremes because traditional data security assumptions have not served well especially to those who communicate sensitive information online and are overpowered by adversaries (i.e. threat actors) in terms of resources and determinations. One cannot fathom the extent of MITM that some resourceful and patient threat actors will go until it is too late. One can never know when state level intelligence agencies start using quantum computers to decrypt archived transmission data, so whatever you feel secure today is no guarantee of not getting back at you by more powerful cryptanalysis technology tomorrow. Last but not the least, unless your body is as nimble as Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible, unless your mind is as ingenious as Keyser Söze in The Usual Suspects, or unless you are always ready to bite and ingest Hydrogen Cyanide (HCN), at the point of being coerced to divulge your secrets, you are doomed. On the other hand, if you have used Citium to communicate private and confidential information, technically feasible/plausible deniability will defend you from being a sitting duck.
Inevitable Eavesdropping, Surveillance & Coercion
Can Citium free users from eavesdropping and surveillance? No, because eavesdropping and surveillance are everywhere. For instance, in 2013, whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed the US NSA PRISM surveillance program to the world. We cannot face the reality without learning a lesson from it that everyone is subject to eavesdropping, surveillance and even coercion by government mass surveillance projects. What Citium does, paradoxically, is to offer deniability so that eavesdropping and surveillance is rendered meaningless because no one knows for sure who sent what from which devices in the vast ocean of "bottles of messages'' hidden in the plain sights of the Citium network of nodes. In other words, Citium utilizes a blend of deniable encryption schemes so that eavesdropping and surveillance become innocuous if not entirely inconsequential. In most circumstances, coercion is tantamount to total defeat. Your attempts to protect the confidentiality of your communications have been in vain. The purpose of deniability is not at all to "convince" the coercer that any surrendered transcript is real; indeed, it is common knowledge that transcript can easily be faked. Instead, the goal is to preempt coercion in the first place by making surrendered transcripts useless. Citium users simply have to "stick to their stories". No data analyst or forensic expert can irrefutably prove who is involved in which message in Citium. The use of Citium has enabled a major paradigm shift to deniable encryption schemes as the last defense of confidentiality. Simply put, as long as you communicate through Citium, you are free to deny every evidence against you. It is not your duty to prove that you are innocent. It is someone else's duty to prove that you have done something wrong that leads to your charges. But rest assured that no one is capable of doing so.
Unrealiable Centralized Regime
As we all know, it is fallacious thinking to appeal to centralized authority and novelty. But unfortunately, this knowledge cannot prevent seemingly trustworthy centralized governing bodies and self-proclaimed experts from peddling ever fancier InfoSec technologies to their users. A laundry list of disappointments has been blindsiding these users, such as
Swiss Crypto AG's compromised machines
Skype's eavesdropping by design
Crackdown on EncroChat
other infamous data breaches.
In view of these repeated incidents, Citium proposes three (3) pessimistic yet stringent InfoSec design premises.
Trust No One: Participant is fallible.
Power Corrupts: Rights are exploitable.
No Secrecy: Cipher is vulnerable.
In face of an intruder successfully uncovering private data in Citium through 1. inciting defection; 2. power abuse; or 3. ciphertext hack, Citium users can still justifiably deny that they have ever been involved because all security forensics are futile, no matter how extensive and meticulous they are. Citium inevitably makes the data source obscured and inadmissible. Besides, Deniability, as an InfoSec feature, greatly reduces the desire of any competitor or judicial authority to investigate or obtain evidence against users of Citium.
Can someone use an unimaginably large amount of resources to attack Citium so that it fails? No, because Citium client app messaging is always available even if all the other Citium nodes have been taken down because dynamic transmission of Citium data piggybacks on BitTorrent and Bitcoin networks. Yes, you heard correctly. Not only that Citium has no central servers, which essentially renders raiding, shut down, or forces to turn over data impossible, but also that its data transmission relies on someone else's P2P network infrastructures. Thus, say goodbye to the server and node outages! A threat actor needs to physically seize ALL devices, such as phones, routers and content servers in ALL countries, where the Citium nodes are situated, to hamper the performance of the Citium network in transferring large files, such as image, voice and video. Not to mention that the takedown is not only highly improbable but a glaring act bound to draw attention. It is just too pyrrhic for most of the threat actors to contemplate. In contrast, law enforcement who is targeting popularized secure chat service, such as EncroChat, would only require a one-time, yet discreet, takedown of their centralized messaging relay or contact directory servers. Most users may unknowingly continue to use the service while their IDs and data have already been covertly compromised. Luckily, Citium users never have to worry about this kind of mishaps. The number of connected device nodes in the Citium network are only growing day by day because every online Citium client app is an active node that serves itself as well as everyone else in the decentralized network. Therefore, crippling or compromising the Citium decentralized network is only getting geometrically harder and harder as time passes while centralized service providers, such as SkyECC, inevitably heighten their data breaching risk as they gain in popularity. Technically, in the infoSec sense, the decentralized network of Citium nodes is a layered defense on top of the PGP-encryption scheme, making Citium communications deniable and quantum-safe. This is a unique service unavailable by any other provider.
InfoSec Highlights
Conventionally, compromising with usability, centralized stakeholders of a cryptosystem hold users' account ID, password, and personal information to authorize access and service, which may all lead to irreparable blowback, such as data breaches, coercion and blackmail attacks. Luckily, modern cryptography technologies enable designers to create better cryptosystem: do away with these rights and power while still retaining the overall usability of cryptosystems!
Citium take full advantage of these time-tested proven technologies to establish a free, open-source, fully decentralized, permissionless blockchain that features cryptanalytically unbreakable cryptosystems and InfoSec mechanisms, such as Hybrid Cryptosystem, threshold cryptosystem, indiscriminate mesh-tree multicast (IMTM), and sockpuppetry. Citium's current build is capable of serving text, image, video and real-time voice data. Decentralized Apps (dApps) built on Citium can enjoy extraordinary data security features, such as deniability, which is well-suited to build Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR) Instant Messenger System.
Server IP Obfuscation: Server IP Obfuscation (SIPO) is a unique feature of Citium. It can hide a server's originating IP address from its visitors while letting them visit HTML5-based content on the server seamlessly. Not only can SIPO effectively prevent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, but it can also curtail IP intelligence gathering (e.g. geolocation lookup), effectively preventing web server takedown and seizure.
Security Tradeoff
Why do I observe occasional delay sending and receiving message(s) thru Citium? The short answer is that the occasional delay is the price we pay for the extra peace of mind in security. The extent of a delay highly depends on the size of a message. If it is a text message, which is small in size, the delay will normally be resolved in a few seconds. But if it is a picture, voice clip or video, which is large in size, the delay will be slightly longer but not longer than a couple of minutes. While you are waiting, Citium is busy encrypting your message with a triple layer of encryption, namely ECDSA, BLOWFISH, and XXTEA. Notably, ECDSA is the encryption scheme used by the Bitcoin network, which has stood the test of time. As the market capitalization of Bitcoin is already in the hundreds of billions of dollars, cracking even a fraction of it means jackpot or attestation to a hacker's ability. In spite of the incentives, no one has been able to crack it. The only reason why ECDSA has not been adapted more widely is due to its hunger for computational power. Mobile devices need time to process the encryption which contributes to the occasional delay. Furthering the delay is the casting of sliced ciphertexts to the P2P networks (i.e. Citium, BitTorrent, Bitcoin) because the ETA in decentralized systems is not as predictable as those in centralized ones. Not to mention, all the while the recipient end is busy fetching these tiny encrypted pieces of message, then decrypting and reassembling them back to the original, readable format. The transmission process is slower than most of the other instant messengers but it is the necessary performance and security tradeoff for Citium users who value confidentiality above all. Technically, the slicing of messages is a concept in threshold cryptography which makes Ctium post-quantum resistant. In plain English it means that even threat actors who come back from the future, armed with quantum strength deciphers, cannot reveal the original text.
Differs from FREE App
Free apps, such as Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and WeChat, obtain and make use of at least one personal identifier(s), such as through email, SMS or phone, to keep track of you. They can lead back to your real identity. Privacy policies of these companies dictate that their user information is insecure. To make matters worse, their centralized-managed business models make them vulnerable to coercions. It means that they are more than ready to give away your information for their own sake as they have the right to release user information to third parties without user permission. On the other hand, paid apps, such as SkyECC, assign user ID to you so anyone with your ID could potentially locate you and knock on your door. Citium guarantees your privacy by absolutely NOT ASKING for anything about you from the process of payment, installation and to customer service. Our customer service agents do not know about your existence unless you reach out to us. A private e-cert will weld to your phone instead of user ID and password. It will free you from username and password combination leaks, ID theft, phishing, malicious random ping of messages and trash ads. We have no central server so any DDoS attack or attempt to data kidnapping is, by design, impossible. You are the only one who controls when, how and with whom you are chatting.
Sockpuppeting Accounts
Apart from privacy issues, from the encryption algorithm point of view, all these free apps issue the public keys that their users use to encrypt the messages so that the companies know who the users are simply by knowing who's using which public key. In contrast, each Citium user issues his/her own public key. In fact, every one of your Citium Contacts are communicating with you through some proxy accounts which Citium created for your Contacts individually during out-of-band verifications. Your Contacts do not know if the accounts are only for them or they're for someone else as well. This scheme essentially disallows your Contacts from turning against you in the future because they cannot prove irrefutably that they are talking to you. Everyone talks through "sockpuppeting accounts" which no one knows for sure who's talking through them so that everyone in Citium can maintain plausible deniability at all times.
Deniability ✓
Many centralized communication systems claim to have non-repudiability as one of their FnfoSec features because their users purposely want to systematically hold their communicating parties legally accountable. Citium does not cater to that purpose. In fact, Citium offers the complete opposite: deniability, which is the last line of defense against forced disclosure and its repercussions.
Some service providers, such as Facebook, are trying to offer deniability but they fail to rule themselves out of the picture. Here a direct quote from the Technical Whitepaper of Messenger Secret Conversations in Facebook Messenger published on May 18, 2017:
"[T]he third-party deniability property ensures that no party outside of Facebook can cryptographically determine the validity of a report."
It implies that Facebook can still be vulnerable to forced disclosure and or even voluntarily submitting to surveillance, not to mention the chance of data breach. Thus, Secret Conversations of Facebook's Messenger offers half-baked deniability at best. In contrast, Citium offers full deniability; no participant or mediatory machine can compromise deniability in any way.
The primary motivation behind Citium decentralized system protocol is to provide a deniable communication network for the conversation participants while keeping conversations confidential, like a private conversation in real life, or off the record in journalism sourcing. This is in contrast with some other centralized communication systems that produce output which can be later used as a verifiable record of the communication event and the identities of the participants.
SafeMail & SDTP
Citium is inherited from the open-source projects: Bitmessage and SafeMail. Although the Citium Instant Messenger project is fully compatible with SafeMail protocol, we decide to call it Citium Instant Messenger (CIM) instead of Citium Mail because it is in many ways (e.g. the user interface and operation) more akin to most of the popular instant messengers in the marketplace.
The communication mechanism used by both CIM and SafeMail is the "Safe Data Transfer Protocol" (Safe Data Transfer Protocol). SDTP dictates that all forms of communication push the same generic notification to the intended recipients. Once notified, the intended recipients are required to retrieve the messages on their own.
Push & Pull(Fitch)
Most instant messenger systems are designed that messages are directly pushed onto the client apps of the intended recipients. However, in Citium Instant Messenger (CIM) system , push notification is limited to a generic text reminder (i.e. "You have a new message.") and a very thin slice of the message encrypted in a ciphertext being sent to the intended recipients. The intended recipients are required to actively fetch the remaining slices on their own from the sea of Citium nodes (i.e. service & user nodes), and eventually, recombining with the thin slice at hand to acquire the original, correct message.
Threshold Cryptography
In any cryptographic system, the most important component of transforming plaintext messages to ciphertext and back is the key. The key is the foundation of the overall security of cryptography, which means that the protection of the key has also become an important issue. One of the methods that can reduce the risk of the key being compromised is threshold cryptography. The basic idea of threshold cryptography is that the key is divided into n shares before being distributed to the involved entities. In order to generate the key again, not all the shares are needed. Instead, an entity can combine only k shares (known as the threshold value) to reconstruct the key. In other words, even though the key is divided into n shares, only k out of shares is needed to reconstruct the key.
As Extra Security
Historically, only organizations with very valuable secrets, such as certificate authorities, the military, and governments made use of threshold cryptosystem technology. Threshold cryptography scheme in Citium is an advanced and extra step to securing the key and to preventing the key from being compromised. This is because an adversary will need to attack k node(s) in order to obtain k shares to generate the key, rather than compromising one node to obtain the key. This makes it more difficult for an attacker.
In Citium, not only the key, but also the ciphertext (i.e. encrypted message) itself are divided into n slices along with the n shares of the key. The shared ciphertexts are distributed indiscriminately to as many Citium nodes (i.e. service & user nodes). In doing so, all contents are benign to the owner of all nodes . No one is needed to be held responsible for any message distributed. No one knows what/whence/to whom they are distributing on their nodes . In the Citium's threshold cryptosystem, it is designed that k = n. It means all n shares have to be collected and combined. It is the most stringent InfoSec setting on the threshold cryptosystem.
InfoSec Summary
Here is a list of available InfoSec features on Citium. Information security, sometimes shortened to InfoSec, is the practice of protecting information by mitigating information risks. It is part of information risk management. It typically involves preventing or at least reducing the probability of unauthorized/inappropriate access, use, disclosure, disruption, deletion/destruction, corruption, modification, inspection, recording or devaluation, although it may also involve reducing the adverse impacts of incidents (e.g. force disclosure / mandatory key disclosure).
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